Fragrant Harbour

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The moral hedonist Tarquin Winot who tells his story in The Debt to Pleasure and the downsized suburbanite whose inner monologues provide the material for Mr Phillips could hardly be more contrasting characters, yet Lanchester makes both equally convincing.

He was born in Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, the only son of Fred Wadsworth, a worsted-spinning industrialist who established both Broomfield Mill and the firm E.First edition first print hardback of FRAGRANT HARBOUR by John Lanchester and published by Faber and Faber Limited in 2002. He went on to become Head of Drawing and Painting at Gloucester College of Art (1931) where he taught until his retirement in 1963. Eine junge Journalistin, die Mitter 90ger Jahre in die Stadt kommt und dort Karriere macht, ein junger Engländer der 1930 vom Reisefieber gepackt wird und in Hong Kong zum Hotelier wird, eine chinesische Nonne die aus Frankreich zurück nach China kommt und noch einige andere Akteure.

To see’ is an artist’s starting point; to translate that vision into both three dimensional space and two dimensional representation, into both buildings and paintings, was Yates’s life-long concern, both as architect and as painter. The complacency of colonial life in the 1930s; the horrors of the Japanese occupation during the Second World War; the post-war boom and the handover of the city to the Chinese - all these are present in Fragrant Harbour , an epic novel of one of the world's great cities. It is a charming book, but its successor, the less challengingly entitled Mr Phillips, is more than that - equally original, yet in its quieter way more adventurous, gentler but more shocking. My old jacket, haggard trousers and roll-up cigarettes seem half a century away from a world permeated with business suits and the latest street fashion.Privately he continued to paint, mainly with oils, and to study the works of the great masters, Cézanne, Matisse and Picasso in particular.

During the balmy December day I would visit my old stomping grounds with the few friends still in touch, retracing our teenage footsteps in Tsim Sha Tsui and Causeway Bay. Lanchester seems somehow to have decided it was time for him to produce a work of what is sometimes regarded as "epic" scope - it covers many years, contains a nasty war, and despite the mass of detail is never quite plausible. In A Debt to Pleasure, I found that interesting (since a lot of it concerned food and gastronomy) while in this book (about three stars for me as well) it did verge on tiresome at points.

Their mid-century aesthetic finds a particular resonance now with its retro-charm, and as prints, these are not only for children.

A favour – an implausible one – has taken Dawn from a job on a local paper in Blackpool to the diary column on a national, and onward to a post as a features editor. But what these films preserve is a largely lost Hong Kong, a city whose recent past is vanishing and whose ever-shifting landscape is fading from recognition. By the end of her story we know that she’s shallow enough to ditch her journalistic principles for the offer of big bucks and power.But we also know that the city attracts the rich and powerful, and offers a lifestyle many can only dream about. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The sale of customised goods or perishable goods, sealed audio or video recordings, or software, which has been opened. He passes the day wandering about London from one scrape or surprise to the next, at one moment a sucker in a porn show, at another a credible hero in a bank during a robbery.